Menopause Relief for the Modern Menopausal Woman- Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

Menopause Relief for the Modern Menopausal Woman- Just in Time for Valentine's Day

It's February, and after the groundhog of your choice has made his prognostication, thoughts turn to romance and Valentine's Day. For the modern woman undergoing menopause, a romantic night or weekend may seem impossible. Menopause can affect a woman's libido, in either direction - some menopausal women have a stronger sex drive than earlier in their life - but it can also have a negative effect. Menopausal symptoms increasing fatigue levels drain energy, and lower energy in a woman is usually associated with a lower sex drive. Vaginal dryness can make intercourse painful as well, also lowering the desire level. But hear the good news - menopausal symptoms are easily treated in today's world! You can alleviate your symptoms and raise your libido with readily available treatments.

Major Menopausal Symptoms

The major symptoms for most women are hot flashes, or being hot all the time, irritability, mood swings, depression, insomnia, headaches and vaginal dryness. These are the result of hormonal imbalances in the body as you progress through perimenopause. These are easily treated, and if the woman is paying attention to her diet, getting exercise, practicing mind-body therapies, and drinking herbal teas, she's in good shape. The self-treatment options listed all ease menopausal symptoms, and if the woman adds herbal remedies, and/or acupuncture to her regimen, she should greatly abate her symptoms.

There are some allopathic treatments available, but they primarily focus on hormone replacement; this treats symptoms well early on, but the risks associated with the therapy are not worth the temporary relief. Natural treatments abate symptoms just as well, but with far fewer risks.

What Therapies are Available?

There are many herbal remedies out on the market. Most are legitimate, but there are the usual assortment of quacks and con artists preying on a woman's need for relief. There are also a few widely known allopathic treatments as well. Let's start with them:

• Menoquil: Menoquil is an all-natural supplement created to help menopausal women throughout the menopausal cycle. It addresses the major symptoms of menopause without the use of artificial hormones, and uses natural ingredients to help bring the menopausal woman's hormones back into balance. Menoquil contains the herbs best known for treating hot flashes, and others known for helping sleep disorders, as well as ones to increase a woman's libido. Menoquil provides Vitamins D and K, Calcium, and Phosphorous. A typical menopausal woman's diet and supplement regimen doesn't contain these needed vitamins and minerals, and Menoquil steps in to bring these four back to normal levels. If you only try one natural product, give this one a go.

• Amberen: Amberen is made from natural ingredients, but it is synthesized in a laboratory, and the ingredient list does not contain natural herbs or spices. Amberen is composed of specially formulated molecules, designed to trigger the hypothalamus's sensitivity to the body's hormone levels, and to stimulate its regulatory activity. Amberen is patented and backed by clinical studies, and side effects are nil for the most part.

• Estrovera: Estrovera is a natural supplement whose primary benefit is preventing hot flashes. It is composed of a single ingredient, rhapontic Rhubarb root. Though Estrovera claims the product helps other symptoms of menopause, it contains none of the herbal products known to aid other symptoms; Estrovera may work on facets of menopause, but a long-term commitment to the product is necessary to find out.

• Menopace: Menopace is not a single product, but a product line of Vitabiotics. The original Menopace, Menopace Plus, Menopace Calcium, and Menopace Night all contain a combination of vitamins and minerals, with soya isoflavones and PABA. Menopace Red clover does not contain the base mixture of the others; it contains red clover extract and green tea. Most women, especially menopausal women, do not get enough of the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health, and the Menopace line is a good way to enhance your intake. These vitamins and minerals do help a woman's menopausal symptoms, so if your daily diet and supplement regimen doesn't contain enough of the vitamins and minerals you need, check these products out.

• EstroGel: EstroGel is a topical treatment. It has the advantage of going on in a clear, odorless gel that dries quickly. It's an easy treatment - one pump in the morning, and you're good to go for the day, and its easy application is a major plus. However - EstroGel is a bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, available only with a prescription. It carries an increase in risk for blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and dementia. Menopausal relief is available without adding the risks.

Conclusion

The modern menopausal woman has a plethora of choices in dealing with the changes she's undergoing. She can choose the allopathic path, but does so at an increased risk for heart attacks, stroke, blood clots, feminine cancers, and dementia. She has a wide variety of remedies available from holistic physicians, naturopaths, and health food stores, as well as the Internet. The modern woman can treat her menopause and plan on that romantic night or weekend come Valentine's Day, and that, as Martha would say, is a good thing.

Posted by Melanie Mendoza on Wednesday February 12 2014, 4:38 AM EST. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0